So which is the best brand in India? We have here a list of 20 popular brands. These brands are NOT ranked.

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Image: Indian brands are now a force to reckon with.Photographs: Reuters

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The Ratan Tata-led Tata Motors is the India's biggest automobile company that manufactures passenger cars, trucks, buses, commercial vehicles, pick-ups, etc. Its revenues are to the tune of around $20 billion.

The company that employs close to 25,000 people, is also the maker of Nano, the world's cheapest car.

Ratan Tata is the chairman of the company; Ravi Kant is vice chairman, and Carl Peter Forster is the chief executive officer of Tata Motors.

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Reliance Industries Ltd, India's largest company in terms of market capitalisation, which stands at Rs 3,51,380.08 crore currently), is also one of the few Fortune 500 companies in India.

The Reliance empire was founded by the late Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966. After his death, his two sons Mukesh and Anil ran the show. However, soon schisms appeared in the relationship and the group was split into two are much acrimony.

The Ambani brothers have now called a truce, though their respective businesses remain independent of each other.

Reliance Industries is a petrochemicals giant led by Mukesh Ambani, who is also the chairman and managing director of the company.

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The Bengaluru-based Infosys is the bellwether of the Indian information technology services sector. It is the country's third largest IT firm, and has over 120,000 employees.

It was founded over 30 years ago by N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora. Arora later quit the company to settle in the United States.

S 'Kris' Gopalakrishnan is the company's CEO, while Narayana Murthy is the chairman and chief mentor.

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The State Bank of India is the nation's largest bank. Its roots rest in the first decade of 19th century, when the Bank of Calcutta, later renamed the Bank of Bengal, was established on June 2, 1806.

The Bank of Bengal and two other Presidency banks, namely, the Bank of Bombay and the Bank of Madras, amalgamated on January 27, 1921, as the Imperial Bank of India. On April 30, 1955, the Imperial Bank of India became the State Bank of India.

The Government of India recently acquired the Reserve Bank of India's stake in SBI so as to remove any conflict of interest because the RBI is the country's banking regulatory authority.

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What began as a joint venture between the Hero Group of India and Honda of Japan in 1984, was split in Dec ember 2010, when the Munjals-promoted Hero Group said it would buy the entire 26 per cent stake of its Japanese partner Honda in the company.

As part of a new licensing agreement with Honda, the Hero Group will buy Honda's 26 per cent stake in Hero Honda.

Brijmohan Lal Munjal is the chairman of Hero Group, while Pawan Munjal is the chief executive.